Ask HN: How would/do you find your niche...
I'm not really sure how to approach finding my Niche, and building on it. Let me give some background: Degree: BS engineering management (basic courses in most engineering disciplines + a little bit of business)
Career: (latest first) -6 Months as technical project manager at web design/dev agency (18 people). --I think this one's fairly straight forward. -1 yr "Big 4" management consulting (150K people) --6 months w/Military Electronic Health Record, as a "Enterprise Architect" basically had to go back and figure out how 64+ systems worked together. blah --6 months as requirements manager/unofficial project manager a Financial oversight agency working with a giant data application think 10+ years of transactions. -3 yrs Systems Engineer in a Aerospace and Defense company working in the communications space. (1500 people) --It doesn't really translate to a non-defense role. Think kind of like a Business Analyst but purely technical, Quality Assurance, quasi project manager
I'm very happy with my job, at the moment, but I do feel that there will come a time when I'm not happy. I'd really like to end up working for myself. I can't "build" anything really myself. I'm working through a Django app right but it's slow going. I also don't see myself coming up with an idea disruptive company. It's not that I'm not creative, I'm more of a "executor" than I am a idea person. Maybe I will come up with something, but who knows.
To jump to the chase...as people in the startup community, where should I focus, or where would you focus, or how would you find your focus. I don't see myself as a developer, but I still see myself as technical.